14. So what I did to Shiloh I will now do to the house that is called by my name. This is the place I gave to you and to your ancestors, the place where you feel so safe.
15. I will force you out of my sight as I forced out all your relatives, all of Ephraim’s descendants.’
16. “Jeremiah, don’t pray for these people. Don’t cry or pray for them. Don’t plead with me, because I will not listen to you.
17. Don’t you see what they are doing in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
18. Children gather wood, fathers light fires, and women knead dough to make cakes for the queen of heaven. They pour out wine offerings to other gods in order to make me furious.
19. They aren’t really provoking me,” declares the Lord. “But they are ⌊harming⌋ themselves to their own shame.
20. “This is what the Almighty Lord says: My anger and fury will be poured out on this place, on humans and animals, and on trees and crops. My anger and fury will burn and not be put out.
21. “This is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat the meat.
22. When I brought your ancestors out of Egypt, I did not tell them anything about burnt offerings and sacrifices.